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10 best books like AA Gill is Away (A.A. Gill): You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day, Jupiter's Travels, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?", Going to Extremes, The World: Travels 1950-2000, The Size of the World, Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales

You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day
AuthorMo Willems
ISBN0786837470
ONE GRADUATE'S JOURNEY TO FIND HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD

In 1990, before embarking on his groundbreaking children's book career, Mo Willems packed a small bag and a sketchbook and set out to explore the world--by place, car, boat, bus, motorcycle, and rickshaw. At the end of each day, he drew a cartoon...
Jupiter's Travels
AuthorTed Simon
ISBN0965478521
Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered 78,000 miles through 45 countries, living with peasants and presidents, in prisons and palaces, through wars and revolutions. What distinguishes this book is that Simon was already...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
AuthorDavid Elliot Cohen
ISBN1885211651
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers
AuthorRoger Rapoport
ISBN1571430148
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0486261131
"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." — Following the Equator
So begins this classic piece...
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?"
AuthorP.J. O'Rourke
ISBN0802137016
Back in the mid to late '80s when PJ O'Rourke wrote the pieces that make up Holidays in Hell, the world was a much different place: there was war in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear conflict, sectarian violence...alright, so things haven't changed all that much. Which is one reason why, after twenty...
Going to Extremes
AuthorJoe McGinniss
ISBN0452263018
This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the "last frontier."...
The World: Travels 1950-2000
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN0393052087
If you like to travel, or read about traveling, this is a wonderful book! Jan Morris has been everywhere, she has written beautifully about her travels in many, many books. This book condenses the stories into vignettes of those trips. From accompanying Edmund Hillary on the first successful summiting...
The Size of the World
AuthorJeff Greenwald
By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long commutes. So he set out to rediscover the mass,...
Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
AuthorJake Halpern
ISBN0618446621
“Part travelogue . . . part meditation on the meaning of home” (Wall Street Journal), Braving Home introduces readers to some of modern America’s most unusual, unforgettable pioneers. The cub reporter Jake Halpern — dubbed the Bad Homes Correspondent by his colleagues — sets out on a journey...
A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World
AuthorAnne Mustoe
ISBN0863696503
When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home.

Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
AuthorDouglas Brinkley
ISBN1560254963
An absolute must-read! Brinkley's "American Odyssey" was a unprecedented class at Hofstra University that allowed a small group of incredibly fortunate students to spend the semester traversing the American landscape to study the history and pop culture of the United States. While studying our...
The People's Guide to Mexico
AuthorCarl Franz
ISBN1566917115
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.

Features include:
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Travelers' Tales India: True Stories
AuthorJames O'Reilly
ISBN1932361014
India is among the most difficult—and most rewarding—of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves...
Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled
AuthorJoe Kurmaskie
ISBN0609809113
This heartwarming collection of true stories reveals the thrill and the freedom of traveling America's back roads on a bicycle, and the joy of discovering unforgettable characters along the way.From the moment he "borrowed" his big sister's banana-seat bike and careened down the neighborhood hill...
I See by My Outfit
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1933572078
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, JFK was assassinated, and zip codes were first introduced to the US. The world was monumentally changing and changing fast. But in the eyes of future fantasy author Peter Beagle and his best friend Phil, it wasn't changing fast enough. For these...
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
AuthorRichard Grant
ISBN0802141803
Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know America?s nomads ? truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tie-dyed concert followers,...
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
AuthorRobert D. Kaplan
ISBN0679776877
"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--Chicago Tribune

"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future." --Thurston Clarke,  ...
The Thousand-Mile Summer
AuthorColin Fletcher
ISBN0679723269
At three o'clock one sleepless night, Colin Fletcher decided that what he must do was walk the length of California. He could only fumble with the supporting reasons, but he knew it was a hike he had to make. Fletcher followed lonely stretches of the Colorado, crossed the Mojave, walked the trough of Death...
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0618126937
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
AuthorDervla Murphy
ISBN0006547990
This is a diary style book, with diversions into the local history, the local culture and some of the many people that the author a her five year old daughter come into contact with on their four month travels in Coorg, in 1973/74.

Never a fan of big cities, Murphy heads out of Bombay relatively...
A Life on the Road
AuthorCharles Kuralt
ISBN0345484843
"A professional memoir of a gifted, good-humored and gracious man...The book has the feel of good conversation on a long trip."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
John Charles Kuralt on the journey of his life. From a southern boy bitten by wanderlust and wonder, to a curious rover writing for newspapers,...
The Inseparable Twins
AuthorAnatoly Pristavkin
ISBN0330304437
"Когда книга, нарушив незримую границу, вторгается в твою жизнь,
она вызывает встречный поток воспоминаний и ассоциаций,
еще прочнее связывающих...
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